Got up and went for an extended walk, as I wasn't sure how active I would be the rest of the day. Down by the park and three loops around, to get to a little over 4 miles. When I got home, I went out into the garage and started working on changing out the cables and housing on my old bike. Started with the right side, and it went pretty smoothly. I soon realized that I was going to need an effective way of cutting the housing without crushing the ends, so I reached out to Blair to seek his advice. The cable and housing set that I bought on Amazon looks like it's going to work just fine, but I need to borrow the tools from Blair before I can continue. I watched several stages of the Women's Tour de France, it's mildly interesting and more generally competitive among a larger group of riders, at least so far. I got the tools from Blair, who had brought them in to work, then I spent the early part of the afternoon cutting cables and housing to fit on the bike. I stripped off the handlebar tape and removed the shifters (there is a 5 mm hex nut on the outer side of the shifter that needs to be loosened). The brake and shifter cables are fairly easily accessible once the brake hoods are pulled back or removed. In this case, I removed them, as I had purchased a replacement set (they are a matched set, mirror images of each other). Everything worked fairly smoothly, and I got all of the housing pieces cut as well as the cables inserted and fed into the brakes and derailleurs. Next step will be to tighten everything up and adjust cable tension. Later in the afternoon, Ann drove me over to the Sharp Rees-Stealy Clinic in Scripps Ranch for my colonoscopy procedure. I didn't have to wait too long before going back and starting the procedure prep. Everything went smoothly, I was mildly conscious during the latter part of the procedure but didn't feel any discomfort. The doctor found one small polyp and removed it, will test it and let me know in a couple of weeks what they find. I was hungry when we got home, and I ate a fairly large dinner and then snacked throughout the evening. No ill effects from the procedure.
Friday, August 16, 2024
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